John Lanchester. (2014). How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say-And What It Really Means. W. W. Norton & Company.

John Lanchester. 2014. How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say-And What It Really Means. W. W. Norton & Company.

John Lanchester, How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say-And What It Really Means. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.

John Lanchester. How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say-And What It Really Means. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.

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"Refreshingly clear, sharp, and funny, How to Speak Money will help you understand not only what the language of finance means but also why it matters." —James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds

To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable. Fortunately, John Lanchester—the best-selling novelist and reporter hailed by The Economist for "explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style"—is here to bridge the gap between the money people and the rest of us. With wit and candor, Lanchester explains more than 300 common words and phrases from "AAA rating" and "amortization" to "yield curve" and "zombie bank."

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   • source: Jim Higgins;Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
   • content: Mixes the helpful, the sarcastic and the entertaining . . . [with] a touch of Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary about it.
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   • source: Peter Sokolowski;New York Times Book Review
   • content: An idiosyncratic collection of short, sharp essays translating the jargon of finance with admirable concision and wit.
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   • source: Ian Critchley;Sunday Times
   • content: Insightful and often funny... An invaluable primer.
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   • source: Melanie Reid;The Times
   • content: A hugely enjoyable book... Lanchester is a kind of brainy Everyman, a brilliant communicator.
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   • source: Evening Standard
   • content: An entertaining and informative read... Witty, provocative and engaging.
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   • source: James Surowiecki, best-selling author of The Wisdom of Crowds
   • content: How to Speak Money is a wonderful and enlightening book. Refreshingly clear, sharp, and funny, it'll help you understand not only what the language of finance means but also why it matters.
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   • source: Jim Holt, best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist?
   • content: Reading this book is like meeting an easy-going guy at a cocktail party who can explain everything that's always mystified you about high finance—'inverted yield curve,' anyone?—with sparkle, wit, and crystal clarity. And if you're already a finance-insider, you'll get a kick out of Lanchester's sly ironies.
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: A terrific primer on financial jargon... Anyone who wants to understand the nightly news should keep this volume at hand.
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   • source: Sarah Lyall;New York Times
   • content: Lays out the case for financial literacy and then provides an essential glossary of terms for those who would like to achieve this happy state.
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      July 28, 2014
      Novelist (Capital) and New Yorker contributor Lanchester offers a terrific primer on financial jargon. Lanchester believes that ordinary people are perfectly capable of understanding the arcs of macroeconomics and managing their own microeconomic decisions—they only need to learn the basic lingua franca. Lanchester’s glossary cleverly illustrates arbitrage by way of cocoa futures, explains what a lender of last resort is, and helpfully defines terms such as “yield curve.” Along the way, Lanchester throws in entertaining asides: for instance, he explains how the lexicographer who oversaw the Oxford English Dictionary felt about the word “monetarism.” There are intriguing cultural byways, such as the plug for the “highly illuminating and not-at-all dated 1940 book Where are the Customers’ Yachts? and a useful distinction between “wealthy” and “rich.” The book’s structure could be improved; it would be helpful if, within a definition, any words that have their own entries earlier or later in the book appeared in bold or italics. But that is a small quibble. Anyone who wants to understand the nightly news should keep this volume at hand. Agent: Caradoc King, A.P. Watt (U.K.)

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To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable. Fortunately, John Lanchester—the best-selling novelist and reporter hailed by The Economist for "explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style"—is here to bridge the gap between the money people and the rest of us. With wit and candor, Lanchester explains more than 300 common words and phrases from "AAA rating" and "amortization" to "yield curve" and "zombie bank."

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